Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem reaffirmed that it is the duty of the Syrian state to save the citizens from being taken hostages by terrorists in Aleppo city, stressing that the idea of “self-administration” in eastern Aleppo is categorically rejected because “it is a reward” for terrorists.

“It makes no sense at all to leave 275,000 of our fellow citizens remain hostages by five or six or seven thousand militants. No government in the world would allow that”, al-Moallem added.

“Syria gave three truce opportunities for evacuating the residents from the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, but terrorist organizations did not allow them to get out through the safe corridors, and they bombed the corridors with mortar shells and prevented civilians from leaving despite all the preparations carried out by Aleppo Governorate to secure them out safely”.

“We have no doubt that our armed forces will win the battle in Aleppo, and the decision of the leadership is to have the situation in Aleppo back to normal, and our families in the eastern neighborhoods would be released from those terrorists who take civilians as human shields,” al-Moallem affirmed…>>>…

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said Saturday UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has no right to talk about Syrian presidential elections, noting that the Syrian Arab Republic delegation will not wait in Geneva forever for other parties to decide to show up.

During a press conference, al-Moallem said the Syrian Arab Republic delegation received a letter from de Mistura scheduling Monday as a date for meeting at the UN HQ in Geneva within the Syrian-Syrian dialogue.

“Meeting with our delegation at first is a good thing,” he said, adding however that the Republic’s delegation “will not repeat the same mistake that happened in the previous round. They are going to wait for 24 hours only.”

“We will no longer accept that [de Mistura] gives up objectivity to please this or that party, and our delegation will reject any attempt to put this issue on the schedule,” he added.

Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov [addressing those who are demanding President Bashar al-Assad to step down]: “President al-Assad believes in the right of Syrian people to self-determination and will not allow anyone to take this right away”.

“We will continue providing all the necessary assistance to Syria in its war against terrorism in parallel with launching a political process,”
added Lavrov, thanking the Syrian army for rescuing the Russian pilot whose aircraft was shot down by Turkey and for providing protection for the Russian embassy in Damascus.

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said Russia’s participation in fighting Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS terrorist organizations will turn the tables on those who plotted conspiracies against Syria.

“There is something new beyond (Russia) providing Syria with weapons, which is Russia engaging in fighting ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra,” said al-Moallem in an interview with the Russian RT channel that was aired on Saturday.

Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad said that Russia is committed to the principles of the United Nations and to international law, and that there is no concern over any initiative it may propose for ending the crisis in Syria.

In an interview given to al-Mayadeen TV on Saturday evening, Mikdad said that Russia is providing support to Syrian Arab Army because it is the only force on the ground in Syria that is active in fighting terrorism, noting that even the Americans and the Saudis know that.

The Syrian foreign minister has slammed the US for making a distinction between the armed Takfiri groups fighting against the Damascus government, saying there is no such thing as “moderate” militants in the Arab state.

“For us in Syria, there is no such thing as moderate or non-moderate opposition. Whoever that takes up arms against the Syrian state is a terrorist,”

During the meeting, Minister al-Moallem relayed congratulations from the Syrian leadership to the Iranian leadership and people for the historic nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated his country’s support to the Syrian government and people,calling for immediate stop of the foreign interference in Syria’s internal affairs.

The non-coordination of the international alliance against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization with the Syrian government is a flagrant violation of the Syrian sovereignty, Lavrov said

The United States is supporting terrorists in Syria by providing them billions of dollars, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Monday.

At a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Walid Muallem said: “Americans demand a political solution but at the same time allocate billions of dollars to support terrorists”.

Syria’s permanent Envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari: “Saudi, Qatari, Jordanian and Turkish involvement in smuggling weapons and facilitating the infiltration of terrorists into Syria”.

“We, in Syria, combat terrorism on behalf of the whole humanity… whenever the Syrian army kills a foreign terrorist, it protects tens of innocents of those who might be potential victims of that terrorist when he returns to his country to practice his terrorism there,” al-Jaafari said.

President Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian and Armenian people face the same challenges and dangers.

The President’s remarks came during a meeting on Thursday with the visiting delegation of the Armenian-Syrian Friendship Association at the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, headed by the Association’s President Tachat Vardapetyan.

Drawing parallels between the dangers facing the people of Syria and Armenia, the President said the Ottomans who committed massacres against the Armenian people a hundred years ago are today, represented by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government, using the same tools, mainly terrorism, against the Syrian people.

Vardapetyan, for his part, stressed that the Armenian people stand by the side of the people of Syria in the face of the regionally-backed terrorist war waged on them, voicing confidence that Syria will get over this war and rout terrorism and its backers.

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